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Juries must, of necessity, be governed, in reaching many results through inferences from other facts, by certain laws of nature and human reason. They are often obliged to infer one thing from another, and this, whether that other be a fact direct or circumstantial.
The good judge is not he who does hair-splitting justice to every allegation, but who, aiming at substantial justice, rules something intelligible of the guidance of suitors.
To remain neutral in situations of injustice is to be complicit in that injustice.
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.
A judgement results from some kind of consideration of the evidences available and is always better than an assumption!
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
It is small comfort to a mouse, if an elephant is standing on its tail, to say 'I am impartial.' In this instance, you are really supporting the elephant in its cruelty.
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
Objectivity allows you the luxury of not taking sides
Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right. In the general experience, everybody has been wrong so often, and it has taken in most instances such a weary while to find out how wrong, that the authority is proved to be fallible.
What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?
A man who makes a decision without listening to both sides is unjust, even if his ruling is a fair one.
Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It's hard sometimes.
It is essential to the pure and peaceful administration of justice that all its officers keep carefully within the boundaries of their constitutional powers. Auxiliary to this, but not secondary in importance, is a due knowledge of the leading subjects for their inquiry and decision.
Nothing is more important to national security and the making and conduct of good policy than timely, accurate, and relevant intelligence. Nothing is more critical to accurate and relevant intelligence than independent analysis.
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.
Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct
As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.
Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.
As one judge said to another judge: be just. And if you can't be just, be arbitrary
Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
Justice. That's what we're supposed to be learning.The law ... the law should be fair. Power should be used fairly.
[T]he success of democracy depends, in the end, on the reliability of the judgments we citizens make, and hence upon our capacity and determination to weigh arguments and evidence rationally.
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
Sometimes people make objectively wrong decisions, you can see them do it, and you aren't sure you wouldn't make the same wrong decision in their place.
Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.
Learn to think impartially.
Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable.
Wherever there is human judgment there is the potential for bias.
Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.
The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all
the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found
Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.
Justice is putting everything in its proper place
'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
Get the facts. Let's not even attempt to solve our problems without first collecting all the facts in an impartial manner.
In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
" ... arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and as a matter of law, unsupportable."
One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others
What gives you the right to play judge and jury and executioner?
Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.
Truth lies at the confluence of independent streams of evidence.
Maintaining one's vigilance against biases is a chore - but the chance to avoid a costly mistake is sometimes worth the effort.
All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.
It is accepted as an axiom by all Americans that the civil power ought to be not only neutral and impartial as between different forms of faith, but ought to leave these matters entirely on one side, regarding them no more than it regards the artistic or literary pursuits of the citizens.
If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.
If we speak of our reason as the impartial bar of judgment we have already taken sides.
How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?
Integrity is the antithesis of compromise and the sworn enemy of comfort. It bases its decisions not on how much discomfort we might be able to avoid, but on how much we need to avoid the compromise of comfort.
All decisions in the criminal justice system must be determined by the physical and scientific evidence, and the credible testimony corroborated by that evidence, not in response to public outcry.
If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand.
statistical reality is the only one, then that is the sole authority. There is then only one condition, and since no contrary condition exists, judgment and decision are not only superfluous but impossible.
Who can judge the judge?Judge-- Kami Garcia
Responsibility, in order to be reasonable, must be limited to objects within the power of the responsible party, and in order to be effectual, must relate to operations of that power, of which a ready and proper judgment can be formed by the constituents.
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.
A witness can be of more value than a policy analyst. An amateur witness, free of conceptual bias, sometimes sees the plainest truth. One should never be blinded by tailoring.
Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody's watching, doing as you say you would do.
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
People must be just and fair, starting with what they thought.
Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.
I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.
Happy will it be if our choice should be directed by a judicious estimate of our true interests, unperplexed and unbiased by considerations not connected with the public good.
Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Often times it is difficult to rely on your judgment when the focus on your true objective is out of alignment.
Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.
When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but to avoid a problem is only to intensify it, and in the process, self-knowledge and freedom are abandoned.
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence
I make no pretensions to 'objectivity,' a fraudulent concept in an era of industrialized and politicized science in which intellectual mercenaries too often serve power and greed, the ambitions of competing nation-states, or the requirements of commerce.
No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice
Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge.
Integrity, the choice between what's convenient and what's right.
What is it that makes us trust our judges? Their independence in office and manner of appointment.
With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong.
Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And why subject it to coercion? To produce uniformity. But is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than of face and stature.
Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.
Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
Imperfect judgments; judgments formed on half-known grounds; judgments formed by the lesser intelligence concerning a greater which it cannot comprehend - what rebellion and ruin have they not caused! "It
Truth's nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards perceptions of unbiased transparency.
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.
When you approach a problem, strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice, assemble and learn the facts of the situation, make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest, and then stick to it.
There is no power without justice.
Who judges the judge who judges wrong?
Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way ... We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it
To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.
How conscience tells us that we ought to be fair, nobody knows. This we can say: we don't know it just from being told, we don't know it from the five senses, and we don't know it by inference from prior knowledge. We just know it. The knowledge is underived.
To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
A politician's capacity to ignore contradictory evidence
Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
The friendless, the weak, the victims of prejudice and public excitement are entitled to the same quality of justice and fair play that the rich, the powerful, the well-connected, and the fellow with pull thinks he can get.